Product Photography Insights - LUMIX GH5 Tethered Product Shoot for Growbaby
Photo Moment - October 17, 2017
I recently did a simple product shoot for a client, Growbabyhealth.com, and narrated the journey for you… enjoy!
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Company that did the masking
LUMIXTether
Folding reflector cards
I found your channel several videos ago, but this one was really helpful to me. I'm not a professional in this field, but I need to take product photos and videos and I'm using the GH5s and GH5M2 and so it was nice to see similar camera in action here. Watching you think through your lighting methods was really helpful too. I often have products with shiny metallic surfaces that are quite challenging, especially for the novice I am. CPL filters have been no help mostly. I have also found changing the angle of the reflection helpful. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!
thanks for watching, and for commenting on this old video… I ended up re-watching it myself! haha
Thanks! I try. The YouTube system doesn’t always make it easy :-)
@@photojoseph Thank you. Was wondering the same thing. It's great how responsive you are to your audience (fans). Instant sub!
Either the 30mm or 45mm Panasonic. I don’t recall for this photo now though.
Your videos are so incredibly practical and informative. Thank you once again for the quality post!!
can i use a 8-18 wide angle lens to make these shots ?
Cool what you can to tethered to your computer it is a shame then that at least that app seems to be exclusive to GH5 cameras. Do you know why this is the case as I believe at least most models have a usb port which should be able to connect to your computer? Now that I have seen it I would not mind giving it a god with my G7. I think a very long time ago I was able to tether my FZ-20 using a 3rd party app but a OEM made one would be much better. This is especially more confusing given how well you can control it with you phone.
+Shawn Sobey That’s a good question that I don’t have an answer to. I agree it should be possible. It may simply be a differentiated feature; something exclusive to the higher end camera. But I don’t know.
Great to see more real work photography content Joseph. Supplements the 'Live Photo Moment'...moments nicely.
It's great to see some of your work, like the interior shot made up of multiple lighting setups merged/masked together.
As someone else stated it would be nice to know lens choices being used etc.
Missing 'MEVO Fridays' a bit...I should have charged for that bit of creativity (LOL) 😉😆.
See you Monday.
It's great to see some of your work, like the interior shot made up of multiple lighting setups merged/masked together.
As someone else stated it would be nice to know lens choices being used etc.
Missing 'MEVO Fridays' a bit...I should have charged for that bit of creativity (LOL) 😉😆.
See you Monday.
+ben5shuttle hehe glad you enjoy and yeah I need to get out of the studio more
excellent video. keep this sort of stuff coming!
Also i wish to know about the Lens and paper background you use please, Thanks
+Abstract Zen I used the 35-100/2.8 for most shots and the 45mm macro for the close-ups. Paper is a white seamless; probably Savage brand.
Can you tell more about how you price this job? what is the price per image?
+Abstract Zen I did price it per image but I also priced it low because it was for a friend. I outsourced the clipping because it’s so cheap and better than I would do.
I really enjoyed this video, the work process and the overall presentation. In doing so also learnt so many tips. 👍
Good vid, great explanation, thanks for sharing.
"We get to see the image nice and big" - said whilst showing light room instead of the tether app... because the live preview is a "nice and big" 640x480px, which is why "We get to zoom in" - because you unfortunately need to do that despite having a 3840 x 2400 retina screen to show that 5184 x 3888 image, so theoretically a full-screen preview with the true image available shouldn't even need a 2x zoom to get pixel perfect
I'll also observe that, personally, I'd prefer to do my focus on the highest resolution screen available to me for any ultra-shallow DoF work
Craig Staples Put it this way... I have yet to hear even a single cogent argument as to why the ability to zoom in is so gosh-darned useful, but showing a full size image that eliminates that need is the first place isn't.
I disagree. you focus while you are at the camera not while sitting back at the computer, using live view for composing is only needed if you have a client or stylist on set looking at the computer while you are at the camera
Craig Staples I'd say positioning and focus - which is exactly where a higher resolution is essential and the live preview fails. Doubly so if you use focus peaking, where you get to see the image and peaking both impacted by the same poor interpolation and compression artefacts
When using any tethering program live view is always limited to the cameras output.
The beauty of using tethering is not to use live view (except for product positioning) but to view the raw image you just shot to see all the other variables, in the same way we used to shoot Polaroids back in the days we used film in the studio.
The beauty of using tethering is not to use live view (except for product positioning) but to view the raw image you just shot to see all the other variables, in the same way we used to shoot Polaroids back in the days we used film in the studio.
What is the stand/table you have your MacBook on?
PhotoJoseph Haha I know that site!!
+Marco Corzani Thanks! http://PhotoApps.Expert is mine too :-)
PhotoJoseph Thanks a lot! I also bookmarked the PhotoExperts site. They seem to do a pretty good job!
+Marco Corzani That stand is from TetherTools and I LOVE it. Attaches to a light stand or C stand or tripod https://www.tethertools.com/product-category/tether-table-aero/
Where can I find the link to this interesting reflectors?
+TheRcEngineer In the description or type the URL that was on the video :-)
Very interesting. Thank you. IMHO for this kind of shooting the Em 1 mk III in high res mode is the gold standard next to medium format systems.
PhotoJoseph Its not about the resolution but the Color gets way better when each pixel covers the r g and b spectrum,but of course when the lighting is right every modern camera can do the job
+TheRcEngineer Yeah that’s a sweet feature for sure. Considering these are for Amazon I could shoot with a 2MP but yes I do wish we had that feature on the GH5!
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